anatomist
Americannoun
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a specialist in anatomy.
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a person who analyzes all the parts or elements of something with particular care.
an anatomist of public-school systems and their problems.
noun
Etymology
Origin of anatomist
Example Sentences
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Nicknamed “Little” for her stature, the child finds employment in the household of a shy anatomist whose trade is making wax replicas of human body parts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
"For Nanotyrannus to be a juvenile T. rex, it would need to defy everything we know about vertebrate growth," explains James Napoli, an anatomist at Stony Brook University and co-author of the research.
From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025
It was one of three species for which the overarching term dinosauria was later coined in 1842 by the anatomist Richard Owen.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2024
In a 1894 bid to determine if exhumed human remains discovered in a German churchyard were really Bach’s, German anatomist Wilhelm His attempted to reconstruct the composer’s face.
From National Geographic • Oct. 23, 2023
He was a born anatomist and so devoted to his studies that he sometimes illicitly borrowed limbs, organs, and other parts from cadavers and took them home for leisurely dissection.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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